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Comment by randomswede

Dice (typically) do not have a memory, so whatever happened yesterday will not influence what happens today. If you roll it daily, your chance of surviving at least N days is (215/216)^N, for the specific case of "rolling three 6 on three 6-sided dice" that puts you at ~50% at 149 days and at ~10% at 496 days.

At sufficient scale, even incredibly unlikely things become quite probable.

parent randomswede 4 years ago

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